Hi Nick, On 2005-01-31, Nick Rapp wrote: > Hey guys, I just got a new motherboard, and i'm having a strange issue > with the ITE chip. First of all, when sensors-detect is probing, my > computer shuts itself off instantly. > I've tried to narrow it down a little further... I know I have that chip, > so I tried to modprobe the it86 driver manually. The result is the same, > computer just shuts off, so I assume that the initial problem and the > ladder are one in the same. > > Any suggestions? The board is a DFI Lanparty nF4 Expert. Thanks! We had one similar report for that board (or a very similar one) a few days ago : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5889 Long story short: there is a mysterious chip on this motherboard's SMBus which shuts down the system when probed. Workaround for sensors-detect: when asked to probe the nForce2 bus, choose "selectively" and enter the value "0x2e" as not being probed. Fix for the it87 driver: this patch: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7032&action=view It is present in -mm since 2.6.16-rc1-mm2, but hasn't been merged in mainline yet. It should be merged soon now (before 2.6.16 is released, at the very least) and might be backported to 2.6.15 and lm_sensors CVS (for Linux 2.4) as well. If you don't feel comfortable with patching your kernel, you can try adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf instead: modprobe it87 ignore=1,0x2e It should work equally well. -- Jean Delvare
